[OSM-dev] Rendering Rules
Brian Peschel
brianp at occinc.com
Fri Mar 14 13:18:43 GMT 2008
First, let me say I think the maps that Open Street Map are producing
look great! So, here is my question(s).
Based on what I can gather from the wiki, it looks like the US data all
started from TIGER data and has been updated from there. And, again
based on the wiki, all the rendering styles appear to come from the tags
that are used (highway=trunk, railway=rail, etc) based on this page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_Features
So, how did the conversion from the TIGER CFCC codes to your tags
occur? Is there a master list that has the conversion from one set to
another?
I have been playing with the Mapnik source code for rendering some
maps. I have data in a custom format, so I had to write my own driver.
Is there some place I can see the style definitions that are being used
on Open Street Map? For example, as you zoom in, a road may appears
black. Then as you zoom in, it changes to white with a black
background. (Python calls them Style and Rule and c++ calls them
feature_type_style and rule_type).
Thanks!
Brian
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